The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has reiterated the call on the general public to desist from polluting water bodies in the country and adhere to the right thing.
According to the Director of Media and Public Relations of GWCL, Stanley Martey, it costs the company a huge sum of monies to treat polluted waters for consumption, this he said also accounts for lost, affects effective service delivering and increment of tariffs.
" our river bodies are been polluted, who are polluting the river bodies?, it is we the citizens. now pollution of river bodies has an impact on the volumes of water that we extract for treatment, for consumption and so if you pollute the result is we are unable to produce enough it affect you the public or the consumer so our expectation is that we do our things right, let us stop polluting of our river bodies so that we can have a very good water extract and treat for the people, now if you pollute it apart from that the volumes will drain it also make cost of production very expensive then it could eventually affect our tariffs" He bemoaned.
Mr. Martey, said this on Friday,14 February in Ho, where a year Performance Improvement Program (PIP) contract was signed between the company and the State Interest and Government Authority (SIGA), formerly State Enterprise Commission.
He advised customers of the GWCL to pay their bills regularly and desist from illegal connections since such activities will not help the development we all calling for.
" if you also do not pay your Bill's regularly and promptly the way you should it will also affect us because we need money to invest back into the system, so if the little that we have to use in investing into the system so that we could treat you well or we could serve our customers well, and the money is not coming how are we going to serve you? So the consumer also has a role to play by paying his Bill's promptly and paying regularly "
On malpractices, the Officer said " you have another role by refusing to involve yourself in malpractices against the company, like illegal connections, bypasses and indiscriminate use of water, if you are paying for water doesn't also mean you should just use it unnecessarily because is you do that, it affects the pressure and in the line and it affects the next consumer" he noted, hence such unacceptable use of water should be put to a stop.
The contract is a year deal signed by board members and directors of GWCL, aimed to improve on performances and there will be a reward for regions that will meet the target and sanctions for those who will fail to meet it, this will last throughout 2020.
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